Building a Caring Economy - by Tania Singer @ Max Planck Institute

Tania Singer is Director of the Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

"In order to address pressing global problems like climate change and inequality, the predominant economic models must be rethought, incorporating other motivational systems that can induce different human behaviors. Such realistic models, based on empirical research in psychology and the neurosciences, would allow societies to cultivate their sense of compassion and build a new kind of “caring economics” that reflects more fully what it is to be human."